underscored — Underscored

@underscored

6 clips · 1 follower

Tag:cognitionClear

The mind does not work by starting from universal principles and deducing particular consequences; it works the other way, by gathering up particular cases until the accumulated weight of them forces upon us recognition of a universal principle.
— William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890)

2w ago

The mind, once expanded by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

3w ago

The mind itself is the seat of action. We do not act because we think, but we think because the possibility of action is always before us.

3w ago

The mind of man has perforce been made analogous to a mirror, or to a vessel, which can be filled with the images or ideas of things external. But this is a most inadequate and false representation of what takes place in the mind when it is occupied with the pursuit of truth.

3w ago

The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are satisfied by the presence of these phenomena, just as the nutritive instincts are satisfied by food.

4w ago

3quarksdaily.com

Perceptual Shifts Part II: The Hunter’s Interface

The dragonfly must be steering based on prediction, not reaction. This requires not only an internal model, a representation of where the prey is going, but also of how to distinguish its own motion from the prey motion.

1mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

Start saving quotes →